Re: Is this a bug ?

On 10/23/19 11:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On 10/23/19 10:51 AM, Geoff Winkless wrote:
>>> Two string constants that are only separated by whitespace with at
>>> least one newline are concatenated and effectively treated as if the
>>> string had been written as one constant.
>> Then -- since the 'e' is separated from 'd' by a comma, the result should be
>> "4", not "3".
> No, because your command is equivalent to
>
> select count(*) from bugtest where fld1 in ('a','b','cd','e');
>
> 'cd' does not match any of the table rows, so 3 is the correct answer.

Yes, that's my mistake.

>> No doubt: it's a bug, no matter what the Pg devs say.
> Complain to the SQL standards committee, not us.

As much as I hate to say it, MSFT was right to ignore this bug in the standard.

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